"KB5ILY - Travis W. Burton" <kb5ily at arrl.net>, Sun, 9 Sep 2007
02:29:57 -0400 (EDT):
>In doing some online research I find that one website has my local
>hospital's location listed as 34-07-21.3 N, 093-05-25.6 W. Yet another
>site has it listed as 34.12258 -93.09044.
The first seems to be degrees, minutes, and seconds with decimal
seconds;
the second is degrees and decimal degrees.
>>Is one way better or worse than the other, and why ?
Neither, but in APRS (and NMEA), the interchange format is degrees,
minutes, decimal minutes. The above position would then be
34°07.3548' E, 093°05.4264' W
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